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Comcast Cameras To Start Watching You?

 
Anonymous Coward
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03/19/2008 11:49 PM
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Comcast Cameras To Start Watching You?
Published on Wednesday, March 19, 2008.

Source: New Tee Vee

If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.

The idea being that if you turn on your cable box, it recognizes you and pulls up shows already in your profile or makes recommendations. If parents are watching TV with their children, for example, parental controls could appear to block certain content from appearing on the screen. Kunkel also said this type of monitoring is the “holy grail” because it could help serve up specifically tailored ads. Yikes.

Kunkel said the system wouldn’t be based on facial recognition, so there wouldn’t be a picture of you on file (we hope). Instead, it would distinguish between different members of your household by recognizing body forms. He stressed that the system is still in the experimental phase, that there hasn’t been consumer testing, and that any rollout “must add value” to the viewing experience beyond serving ads.

Perhaps I’ve seen Enemy of the State too many times, or perhaps I’m just naive about the depths to which Comcast currently tracks my every move. I can’t trust Comcast with BitTorrent, so why should I trust them with my must-be-kept-secret, DVR-clogging addiction to Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

Kunkel also spoke on camera with me about fixing bad Comcast user experiences, the ongoing BitTorrent battle and VOD. But he mostly towed the corporate line on these issues (the monitoring your living room came up after my camera was put away).

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Rota

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I read an article a long time ago that said they have already been using a microphone built into the box.
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fuck that shit.
not in my house.
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Duct tape?

Screwdriver and wirecutters?
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fuck that shit.
not in my house.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 184760

Well if you have a cell phone they can still listeb to you that way....unless you pull the battery.
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If they are admitting this much, they are doing far more.
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fuck that shit.
not in my house.

Well if you have a cell phone they can still listeb to you that way....unless you pull the battery.
 Quoting: Rota

keep cell phone in my car.
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Before you get all freaked out. It's the same thing that TiVo and well, the internet does. It doesn't "watch" you, but it does pay attention to what you what, to tailor specific advertisments to your tastes.
Yeah, it's invasive to a point, but it's nothing more sinister that what every other cable company (MSO) or Sat., TiVo or the like, including the internet has been doing for a long time.
Get used to it or disconnect.
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Nope - they are like Cockroaches - I agree, if they admit to this, OMG there is no telling what is really going on....
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If they are admitting this much, they are doing far more.
 Quoting: Turtles Know

some tv sets also 'watch'
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Before you get all freaked out. It's the same thing that TiVo and well, the internet does. It doesn't "watch" you, but it does pay attention to what you what, to tailor specific advertisments to your tastes.
Yeah, it's invasive to a point, but it's nothing more sinister that what every other cable company (MSO) or Sat., TiVo or the like, including the internet has been doing for a long time.
Get used to it or disconnect.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67312

fuck off.

its invasive as shit.

not in my house.

ever.
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Before you get all freaked out. It's the same thing that TiVo and well, the internet does. It doesn't "watch" you, but it does pay attention to what you what, to tailor specific advertisments to your tastes.
Yeah, it's invasive to a point, but it's nothing more sinister that what every other cable company (MSO) or Sat., TiVo or the like, including the internet has been doing for a long time.
Get used to it or disconnect.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67312


way to perpetuate it, dickweed. you're condoning this behavior on the notion that, 'because it's happened before..'? Wtf?
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Before you get all freaked out. It's the same thing that TiVo and well, the internet does. It doesn't "watch" you, but it does pay attention to what you what, to tailor specific advertisments to your tastes.
Yeah, it's invasive to a point, but it's nothing more sinister that what every other cable company (MSO) or Sat., TiVo or the like, including the internet has been doing for a long time.
Get used to it or disconnect.

fuck off.

its invasive as shit.

not in my house.

ever.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 184760

I agree, no cable here not now not ever. Has any one else had Google "ask" to turn on your webcam and microphone? This has happened to me twice I don;'t have either one, use P3 computers which I know don't have any built in spy gadgets. When TV goes digital next year I will scrap my TV antenna and throw my 19'' in the dumpster......good riddence!
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Actually when Comcast hooked up our cable the installer advised us the box (which is tiny - the one with no numbers or anythng just a red dot) is designed so you can have live video chats and video phone (supposdley theres already a cam inside), the next guy said they god rid of them and that wasn't what they were for. Either way, I already got rid of my cable. Just have good ole internet.
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skynet
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well this sucks for me becuase I have my cable in my bedroom where I sleep with my husband.....they are seeing some interesting stuff....
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They still need man power no matter what anyone says.
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ahhh whitevan helicopter 1984
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well this sucks for me becuase I have my cable in my bedroom where I sleep with my husband.....they are seeing some interesting stuff....
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Sucks to be you. I'd protest.
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They already are.
Thread: WTF, can comcast see inside your house, through your cable box?
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If they are admitting this much, they are doing far more.
 Quoting: Turtles Know


Thank you!!! That was my very first thought.
"Until you are willing to organize your friends and neighbors and literally shut down cities - drive at 5mph through the streets of major cities on the freeway and stop commerce, refuse to show up for work, refuse to borrow and spend more than you make, show up in Washington DC with a million of your neighbors and literally shut down The Capitol you WILL be bent over the table on a daily basis." Karl Denninger

Don't blame me; I voted for Ron Paul.

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03/20/2008 04:28 PM
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So, knowing what you know, why do you even have cable/satellite AND a television?

I ditched cable last year, the only thing I watch is DVD kid movies when the kids are here, anyway.

You know it's garbage, you know it's lies, you know it's propaganda(not to mention a big waste of time)…why are you still watching it?
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every square inch of the UNited States is under real time microwave surveillance by the NSA, DoD, NRO and DHS.

What do you think all of those secret DoD payloads were all about?
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crap....no more sex in the living room. Pervs.
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If they are admitting this much, they are doing far more.
 Quoting: Turtles Know


Exactly. hiding
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